Hesychast controversy

English

Proper noun

Hesychast controversy

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.

Related terms

• Hesychasm

Translations

controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靜修派爭論 / 静修派争论 (Jìngxiūpài zhēnglùn)

• Finnish: hesykastinen kiista
• Portuguese: controvérsia hesicasta f